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policy
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?l?si/, /?p?l?si/
- (US) IPA(key): /?p?l?si/
Etymology 1
From Middle French policie, from Late Latin politia (“citizenship; government”), classical Latin pol?t?a (in Cicero), from Ancient Greek ???????? (politeía, “citizenship; polis, (city) state; government”), from ??????? (polít?s, “citizen”). Compare police and polity.
Noun
policy (countable and uncountable, plural policies)
- A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body. [from 15th c.]
- Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness. [from 15th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:
- These bitter accusations might have been suppressed, had I with greater policy concealed my struggles, and flattered you […]
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- The very policy of an hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140:
- (now rare) Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft. [from 15th c.]
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25:
- Whether he believed himself a god, or only took on the attributes of divinity from motives of policy, is a question for the psychologist, since the historical evidence is indecisive.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25:
- (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house. [from 18th c.]
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 36:
- Next morning was so splendid that as he walked through the policies towards the mansion house despair itself was lulled.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, page 36:
- (obsolete) The art of governance; political science. [14th–18th c.]
- a. 1616, William Shakespeare, Henry V, I.1:
- List his discourse of Warre; and you shall heare / A fearefull Battaile rendred you in Musique. / Turne him to any Cause of Pollicy, / The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose, / Familiar as his Garter […]
- a. 1616, William Shakespeare, Henry V, I.1:
- (obsolete) A state; a polity. [14th–16th c.]
- (obsolete) A set political system; civil administration. [15th–19th c.]
- (obsolete) A trick; a stratagem. [15th–19th c.]
- a. 1594, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:
- 'Tis pollicie, and stratageme must doe / That you affect, and so must you resolue, / That what you cannot as you would atcheiue, / You must perforce accomplish as you may.
- a. 1594, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:
- (obsolete) Motive; object; inducement.
- What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Burmese: ??????? (paula.ci)
Translations
Verb
policy (third-person singular simple present policies, present participle policying, simple past and past participle policied)
- (transitive) To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.
Etymology 2
From Middle French police, from Italian polizza, from Medieval Latin apodissa (“receipt for money”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (apódeixis, “proof, declaration”)
Noun
policy (plural policies)
- (law)
- A contract of insurance.
- A document containing or certifying this contract.
- (obsolete) An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
- A number pool lottery
Synonyms
- (number pool) policy racket
Derived terms
- policyholder
Translations
Further reading
- policy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- policy at OneLook Dictionary Search
- policy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
policy From the web:
- what policy encouraged the growth of american
- what policy is the berlin airlift an example of and why
priestcraft
English
Etymology
priest +? -craft.
Noun
priestcraft (usually uncountable, plural priestcrafts)
- The craft of performing the duties of a priest.
- (derogatory) Priestly policy directed towards worldly ends.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel:
- In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin
- 1831, The Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 26:29
- He commandeth that there shall be no priestcrafts; for, behold, priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise of the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion.
- 1891, Horace (Horatio) Smith, Address to a Mummy:
- Perhaps thou wert a priest,--if so, my struggles / Are vain, for priestcraft never owns its juggles.
- 1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel:
Anagrams
- afterscript
priestcraft From the web:
- priestcraft meaning
- what is priestcraft lds
- what is priestcraft meaning lds
- what does priestcraft
- what does priestcraft mean in the bible
- definition of priestcraft
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